Word: roving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antiterra's "current events" rove timelessly between an imagined future, in which Mississippi is run entirely by Negroes, and a fabled past, in which the Crimean War, occurring in 1886, is fought with modern war planes. For a while, space and time are suspended. Ultramodern "dorophones" ring, planes fly, and magic carpets skim cool glades without so much as a patent pending...
...further trouble. Local Negro businessmen put signs reading "Soul Brother" on their stores in the hope that rioters would pass them over. The afternoon and evening were relatively quiet as the usual Saturday night crowds gathered in the streets. After sundown, however, small bands of youths began to rove through the area. Unlike Friday night, the action was not centered on Blue Hill Ave., but was scattered throughout Roxbury. Police raced from one incident to another, but their presence only seemed to increase the tension...
...narrow streets with children, animals and a startling collection of peasant faces. None are professional actors; the Apostle Judas is a Roman truck driver, the Virgin Mary in her later years is Pasolini's mother. Pasolini catches their simplicity and intensity with powerful effect. His camera seems to rove, news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved in some ancient miracles. Occasionally, the film is as violent as history itself. The slaughter of the innocents looses an avalanche of pity and terror upon a sunny hillside, and the Crucifixion...
Britton insists that the college retains the privilege of contracting for police protection. The University Police, who would rove the Quad area in a squad car, will provide "greater safety and protection for students," than the watchmen Britton said...
...penthouse, Artist Henry Koerner painted the cover portrait in three sittings, while "interior decorators were coming in by the droves." More or less at the same time, she also managed to run through scenes from the show for Photographer Ormond Gigli, whose color shots accompany our story, and to rove the town with Reporter Ray Kennedy, shopping for antiques, shoes or Fudgsicles. Says Kennedy: "I felt as if I were on a teen-age date...